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Rustmouth Ogre

Creature — Ogre4 generic manaRed manaRed mana

Somebody had to be the bruiser that hated metal, and this is that ogre: a fat red body whose entire reason for existing is to walk into a board of equipment, mana rocks, and creatures-that-are-also-artifacts and start cracking them on contact. The design reads flavor-first (a rusting ogre that smashes machinery) and mechanics-second, but the structure is deliberate. The artifact destruction is bolted to combat damage, which means the effect is conditional on the body actually connecting, and a creature this size with no evasion is the kind of attacker that gets chump-blocked or traded off before it ever resolves the trigger. That is the whole tension: the payoff is repeatable artifact removal stapled to a creature, but the price is that you have to push damage through every turn to collect it. Set it against the era's cleaner answers, the cycling artifact-haters and the one-shot Naturalize effects, and you see the trade: those answer an artifact immediately and once, while this promises to answer one per swing forever, provided it keeps swinging. In a metal-heavy era, a creature that eats artifacts whenever it bites had obvious appeal; in practice the combat-damage condition did most of the balancing, and the card sat as a serviceable top-end beater whose removal upside was real but rarely the thing that decided the game.

Rustmouth Ogre (mrd)
MRD · #103uncommon
Pricing
Normal: $0.06
Foil: $0.47
Oracle Text

Rules text

Whenever this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may destroy target artifact that player controls.
Legalities

Format Status

Standard
N/A
Pioneer
N/A
Modern
Legal
Legacy
Legal
Vintage
Legal
Commander
Legal
Pauper
N/A
Brawl
N/A
Historic
N/A
Alchemy
N/A
Timeless
N/A
Standard Brawl
N/A
More formats
Old School
N/A
Premodern
N/A
PreDH
Legal
Pauper Commander
N/A
Oathbreaker
Legal
Gladiator
N/A
Penny Dreadful
N/A
Duel Commander
Legal
Future Standard
N/A
COMPETITIVEBRAWL
N/A
TLR
N/A
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